Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Shinn

I was in New Orleans just this past week. It is a terrible, terrible feeling to see all the homes that, to me, look destroyed. It's not just the arena. If the arena is in playing condition, will there be fans there? I don't know how many people will come back and how quickly they'll come back.

James Worthy

Knocking out the cobwebs that had been over L.A. and over the Great Western Forum and way back in the Sports Arena days when Jerry West and Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain never could overcome the Celtics - that probably was my fondest memory,

Clint Johnson

Kemper Arena was brand new my senior year. It was an awesome experience because you can see everybody play and get to talk to them. I really enjoyed that. It's really too bad they don't do that anymore.

Dave Dupuis

He (John) wanted to make the arena better for its users while finding a home for our sports hall of fame. I will be thinking of him constantly during construction, as will many people. His example and memory will make it bitter sweet indeed, but very pride-filled.

Evan Brown

This was a goal and my other goal was to place (at state) and bring home a medal. It'll be interesting because it's in a new arena this year.

D. James

He's a smart kid; he knows the offense that we're in. He's been with us since training camp, so the only thing with him is making sure that we're getting the proper looks for him during practice so he can get used to the rhythm and timing of arena football.

Richard Davies

His productivity in arena ball is obviously something every coach would love to have on their ball club. And it establishes some healthy competition at the quarterback position in training camp.

Mike Dailey

His natural side of the ball in college was the defensive line. This is his third season in the arena league, and he has certainly developed a lot as an offensive player. He's worked at it very hard. He's taken a lot of pride in it.

Greg Skidmore

I think it's fairly easy for universities or whoever owns the arena to prevent it from happening.

Ed Servais

I was interested to see where people would rank us, and obviously we're fifth or sixth. They obviously don't have a lot of respect for what we have returning. We'll talk about that occasionally with our players on days where we lack a little motivation.

Mac Gifford

Katie, her stress fractures, even though she is able to play, by the end of two days of playing, she's really sore and her mobility is really affected; same thing for Victoria with her arm. We need to have some other people come up in singles and contribute.

Tiger Woods

Just one of those weird days where I just didn't have it. I didn't feel very good over the ball, putts, chips, full shots, you name it.

Bronson Arroyo

Just one of those days that every hit they had, they were all mistakes and they smashed him,

Guus Hiddink

I talked with (Liverpool manager) Rafael Benitez a few days ago about him and we were planning to get him in a special program to have him fit as soon as possible. I have my ideas and Benitez has his ideas and we will work on this to get him fit as soon as possible.

Zach Malvik

It actually felt pretty good the next day. It hurt more two days after, but it didn't hurt worse than before I played.

Shiraz Peled

It can take up to three days for one piece to dry, depending on how thick it needs to be.

Jeff Moore

It can take more than three days just to route the request to the right individual.

Steve Dunn

I taught somewhere between 600 to 700 students while I was here. I can tell you those were great days in this old school building.

Jay Bender

I think the idea that it is a limited public forum is the one that would give them the most traction.

Suranand Vejjajiva

The PAD can hold their own forum to speak to the public.

Bill Clinton

You won in the WTO forum and you in the NAFTA forum, so in that sense I'm sympathetic.

Paul Kane

They want a seat at the table and they have a forum at which to have a seat.

Kurt Opsahl

A tech mandate requiring backdoors in the Internet endangers the privacy of innocent people, stifles innovation, and risks the Internet as a forum for free and open expression,

Sterling Ivey

What the Veterans of Peace group wants to do is come in and basically, through an open forum, promote their cause. This is not an open forum setting for those types of discussions.

Harry Carson

I don't think that's the forum to do that.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Hanna

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Howard Stern

I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, 'I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million.

John Huarte

I was just as surprised by that as I was when I won the Heisman. It's a great honor and it's nice to know that even so many years later people still remember what I did in football.

Chris Eyre

I was lucky, I had a Verizon phone and it had great service all through the storm,

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Maurice Garner

Kenyatta just had a great season for us. It might have surprised a lot of people, but not me because she has such a great work ethic.

Masayoshi Son

Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave the operation up to Jack. We trust his skills.

Phil Jackson

He (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) knew what he was trying to get accomplished, but still in all, it never quite seems to match up.

Wanda Jackson

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

Michael Lewis

In terms of transportation, Jerry Kilgore had a plan,

Joe Shuster

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

Tom Brady

You know, ... Joe wasn't MVP in his third one, either. Jerry Rice got it.

Chad Lewis

They had this one receiver. He was the next Jerry Rice. He really played well.

Aaron Rowand

They're not moving. I ran into them enough times, and they're still not moving. Thanks for (chairman) Jerry Reinsdorf for putting more padding on the wall.

Mickey Hart

There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group.

Magic Johnson

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says no, then you have to knock on the next door,

D. James

It is not how you start a game, it's how you finish. We didn't win. They were knocking down shots and we weren't. They were making plays and we weren't. That's what it's all about.

Shawan Robinson

I was just getting open looks and taking my time and knocking them down.

Cari Strange

(Cleary's) really been stepping up her play lately. She's been taking better shots lately, and that's led to her knocking down a lot more.

Phillip Johnson

I'm planning a whole new life, ... It's an opportunity knocking for me out here.

Kevin Connors

They weren't knocking us off the ball, but we couldn't wrap them up and put them down. It was their second-chance yardage that killed us all night.

Curt Ziegmont

They just had too much power for us. Inside, and obviously, the shooters that they have were phenomenal. They were knocking them down tonight.

Denham Brown

They're trying to make history, and knocking off Connecticut is a big deal.

Jim Jackson

For 30 days, we went knocking on doors. My knuckles still hurt.

Adam Brown

He was able to overcome everything. He's an inspiration to me and to others.

Charles Clark

I think we will be able to overcome these issues,

Jay Cutler

In the past, I don't think we had enough talent to overcome those mistakes. Now, I do.

Jonathan Spira

The first thing is whether people can overcome their own preconceived notions. Do you need to see people to know they are working?

Nancy O'Dell

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

Kendall Simmons

It's one of those things where I want to spread the word, let them know that you can be in the same position I'm in. You're going to have hurdles, but if you work hard, you can overcome them.

Lindy Ruff

That part has got to better. They've had some tough times. We've been able to overcome some of those times. Right now, we haven't been able to, but we got to be able to support them better at times like this too. That's it for me, thanks.

Ken Sparks

And then professionally, at 6-foot, he wasn't supposed to be big enough to play in the NFL. But he's always worked to overcome his problems.

Noam Chomsky

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Asif Kapadia

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

Carl Jung

Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?" Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!

Anton LaVey

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

Rob Sheffield

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

Richard Petty

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

Richard Dawkins

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

Richard Dawkins

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?

Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Rick Perry

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Robert Brown

Still ailing, Wind? Wilt be appeased or no?